Chapter 14: The Bitter Meat Scheme
After three days, Zhu Jun sent people to Ava City to pull back the limestone agreed by Huang Xin, for this reason, he also specially built a simple warehouse to store this batch of stones, as for the manufacture of cement Zhu Jun plans to say slowly, now all the craftsmen are used to make bows and crossbows, and ordinary people are opening up open space in the west of the village to plant mulberry seeds, and they can't get out of the way at all.
Zhu Jun began to turn his attention to the one-eyed pirate leader lurking in the village, the one-eyed is very low-key, every day pretending to be a grocer from Ava City to pick up a load of goods from Ava City to sell in the village, that night he will go back to Ava City to stay, he is also very kind, from time to time will bring some half-old children a few maltose, after a while, he will be familiar with many people in the village, as soon as he is free, he will squat in the corner with people to chat. He has a lot of knowledge, and he talks funny, and most of what he talks about is what he has seen and heard in the South Seas, and many people are willing to get together with him in their leisure time to gain some knowledge.
On this day, One-Eye took a few little minions into the village with the goods, and he heard a burst of angry shouts in the village from afar, he immediately became alert, and glanced at the little minions behind him, and the little minions understood, quickened his pace and rushed to the source of the sound.
When they came to the village, dozens of ordinary people had already stopped to watch, and it turned out that the angry shouts came from the house of the new first emperor, the largest building in the village. (Later, the Yongli calendar was changed to a new beginning, sorry, the title of the book is called the Emperor Yongli, which was modified when the plot was conceived later, but the new beginning is the Yongli, and the Yongli is the new beginning, everyone closes their eyes and looks at the past.) )
"Bastard, you can manage how I make money, what kind of thing are you." The roar in the room grew louder and louder.
"Your Majesty, the minister is the head of the household, and his responsibilities lie, these jewels are no better than gold and silver, and they must not be used unless they are absolutely necessary." Someone argued loudly inside the house.
"What if I prefer to use it?" A shuddering sneer came out.
"The minister has said that the duty is in the body, and the jewel must not be used."
A crisp applause rang out, and then an official escaped from the hut in embarrassment, with a crimson palm print on his left cheek.
"Get out! I don't want to see you again, what is the head of the household, phew, it's just a dog of my Zhu family. ”
The embarrassed official covered his cheeks, and his cloudy eyes were filled with tears, and when he heard this, he was full of wit, stacked his feet, and went to the entrance of the village.
After reading it, the little minion quietly retreated to the stall in the east of the village, and quietly made a few gestures to the one-eyed, one-eyed nodded, and the little minion got the approval of the big boss, so he quickened his pace and chased the official in the direction of the village entrance.
The sun was gradually setting in the west, the sky was getting darker, and the remnant sun was like blood, and the haze slowly enveloped the entire village, and the clouds on the horizon rolled and scattered, scattering golden light.
One-Eye and a few minions cleaned up their stalls, picked up the load, and left the village to rush to Ava City. When they arrived at the city gate, a few men walked towards One-eyed, and a thin triangular eye attached to One-eyed whispered: "The big boss, that person has been placed in the wine shop by the water rat, and he is drinking stuffy wine, do you want to take a look?" ”
One-eyed changed the kindness in the village, snorted coldly from his nose, and squeezed out a sentence from his big yellow teeth: "Of course I want to go, this is a big idea, the rest of the brothers go back to the residence first, and Lao Tzu plays with the idea first." ”
One-Eye handed over the goods on his shoulders to the little minions, and the two groups parted ways at the corner of the street. One-eyed entered the wine shop with his hands behind his back, and saw the water rat drinking with the official who was kicked out, the official scolded a few words drunken and hazy, and then took the wine poured by the water mouse and dried it up, and then pointed to the direction of the village and muttered a few words, and then lay crookedly on the wine table.
Seeing that the official was really drunk, he didn't care about it, and said to the water mouse, "Help the idea to the private room upstairs." ”
The water rat nodded, helped the drunken official up by the waist, and took his hand to help him upstairs.
One-eyed took out a handful of broken silver from his bosom and gave it to the shopkeeper, telling him not to be disturbed, and then chased after him.
"I'm Yang Side... Reading since childhood... Reading poetry books, Chongzhen ten... Ten years of Jinshi, thirteen years into Hanlin as a Jishi, Longwu (Longwu is also the Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and was later arrested by the Qing army. Two years as the head of the household department, how glorious is it? I didn't expect it to become a dog of the Zhu family today, that... What is the Dog Emperor? Seeing the Qing army, isn't it like a lost dog? Hum! No matter what, no matter what, since I'm just the dog of the Zhu family, then I will set off for the north tomorrow, it is better to be a dog full of people. Yang Side shouted in the private room, drunkenly grabbed the tea cup on the table and wanted to smash it, but the water rat acted cleverly, stopped his waist and hugged him, so he was spared.
"Huh? Isn't this the Ming official of the village outside Ava? Fortunately! Fortunately! One-eyed pretended to be surprised and entered the private room, and said to Yang Side.
"Who are you?" Yang Side staggered, glancing at the one-eyed, his face full of disdain.
"I'm a small character who walks on my feet, how can adults recognize villains."
Yang Sichang suddenly laughed wildly, and pointed to the one-eyed nose in a drunken fog and said, "I remembered, you are a merchant in the east of the village, haha, I remembered." ”
"It's rare for adults to remember villains, but I don't know how adults came here to drink stuffy, but what difficulties did they encounter?"
"Hmph, it's not the dog emperor ...... Yongli" Yang Sichang suddenly sobered up a little when he said this, and retracted the latter paragraph.
"Hey, in fact, what happened to the adults and the villains happened to see it in the village, so there is no need to hide it." One-eyed sighed and continued to ask Yang Side: "It's just that I don't know what the adults have planned?" ”
"The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. Yongli is not benevolent, am I Yang Sichang a vegetarian? I will go north now to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and I will have nothing to do with him from now on. Yang Side tweeted angrily.
One-eyed was overjoyed, he had been lurking in the village for seven or eight days, and still had not received any valuable information, this official seemed to have a lot of background, if he could be countered, this operation would have more internal response, and the chances of victory would be a little greater.
However, this kind of thing can not be careless, he carefully observed Yang Side, and felt that he did not seem to be a fake, and Yang Sidee was beaten and scolded by the emperor during the day was also seen by his own little minion, so he believed it even more.
"My lord, the villain opened the skylight and said bright words, in fact, he is not a merchant, but a lonely overseas water thief, the reason why he pretended to be a merchant and entered the village is just to cover people's eyes and ears in the name of a merchant......"
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On the second day, Yang Side returned to the village again, and as soon as he arrived on his front foot, One-Eye behind him came in with a few minions carrying goods.
The conditions offered by One-Eyed are really tempting, aren't you Yang Side going north to join the Qing people? Good! Pretty good! We water thieves are for money, since you went north to ask for officials, we worked together to break through the village, we only took treasures, you Yang Side took the head of Emperor Yongli, we parted ways.
How much is the head of Yongli worth? It seems that the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have a clear price, but it is certain to be promoted to become rich and then be knighted, can you do such a deal? Don't worry, we will do the killing, you just need to rely on your previous connections to set up some information in the village, such as how many guards are in the village, when are the shifts, where are the jewels hidden, when the guards are the most lax, etc.
But One-Eyed still stays behind, just kidding, Lao Tzu is a pirate or not, Xinyi or something is bullshit, and when the matter is done, Lao Tzu will slaughter you Yang Side first, this Yongli head can change both official positions and money, where is it your turn, this surnamed Yang is really a stupid nerd who reads and reads, even believes the words of pirates, and does not inquire about my one-eyed reputation in the pirate world, cooperate with me, and don't pick your skin to blame.
What One-Eye doesn't know is that not only him, but even Yang Side also left a hand, just kidding, Yang is a scholar, what is Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is not backwards, you don't go to the officialdom to inquire about my Yang Side's reputation, you fell for the bitter tricks of the emperor and me, and it would be strange if you didn't catch all of you water thieves.
Both sides have their own ghosts, but the cooperation is very pleasant.
When Yang Side returned to the village, he began to chatter and pull a few low-level generals of the Shenyong Battalion to talk in a quiet place, and occasionally passed by the one-eyed stall, and the two still pretended to be ignorant, but the two of them looked at each other and smiled without being noticed.
During this period, Zhu Jun continued to supervise the manufacture of bows and crossbows, arrow clusters and the training of the Shenji Battalion, and secretly summoned Mu Tianbo to study how to evacuate the people and how to deal with the enemy.